Analyst: Meego's a Joke–Nokia Needs Windows Phone 7

Some unsolicited advice for Nokia CEO Stephen Elop ahead of next week’s big Capital Markets Day gathering: Scrap the company’s Meego OS and forge a Windows Phone 7 hardware alliance with Microsoft. Otherwise, prepare to be eclipsed once and for all by the upstart rivals that have already bested you in the smartphone space.

Nokia: 2010 Will Be Better–We Promise

A bit of good news for Nokia in its seemingly endless parade of bad. The company said today that it expects handset industry volumes to rise 10 percent in 2010 from 2009 as the market rebounds from the econalypse. “Going into 2010, the overall mobile devices market is stabilizing and it is growing more in the areas where Nokia has competitive advantages,” CFO Timo Ihamuotila said during the company’s Capital Markets Day event today.
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Nokia's Incredible Shrinking Handset Market

Nokia’s Capital Markets Day event is proving quite the downer, and the day’s only just begun. This morning the company cut its global handset market forecast for the second time in three weeks, warning that the slowdown in the industry is worse than expected.

Nokia’s Incredible Shrinking Handset Market

Nokia’s Capital Markets Day event is proving quite the downer, and the day’s only just begun. This morning the company cut its global handset market forecast for the second time in three weeks, warning that the slowdown in the industry is worse than expected.